You can use this opportunity to make updates to the areas damaged in your home that perhaps you have been putting off for some time.
And all the while, critical debates and difficult decisions were put off for some other time on some other day.
The Dutch FA was keen to give a trial to the concept in Cup matches but Fifa said the decision should be put off for the time being.
Doing the right thing for the long haul is typically put off for a later time, if it ever happens.
On Monday morning, the Supreme Court put off, for a second time, the decision whether to hear Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, but the core of the issue is unlikely to remain unresolved for long.
Congress put off for a fourth time a session on whether to back or overturn her vetoes of two spending bills after her government was unable to obtain a quorum despite a cabinet reshuffle last week meant to bolster her support.
After several meetings Hastings proposed, but the wedding was put off for a long time due to his lack of money.
Whether it be, going for a walk, meditating, cleaning the house or doing something you have put off for a long time.
So if you look at our budget, what you have is a very disciplined, fiscally responsible budget, along with an effort to deal with some very serious problems that have been put off for a very long time.
I'd suggest the growing body of research concluding that what was once seen as an inevitable descent into the next ice age has been put off for a very long time by the building blanket of greenhouse gases generated by humanity's burst of fossil fuel combustion.
Capital investments can be put off for a period of time, but eventually technology companies have to keep up.
